So now we have Rambo Obama, a steely warrior who, according to a lengthy
leaked insider account in The New York Times, hurls death-dealing
drones at anyone who threatens the good old USA. Including children.
Those children are presumed guilty by virtue of proximity, and the Times
plays along, not even modifying a targeted terrorist with the word
“alleged,” as once had been the paper’s convention: “When a rare
opportunity for a drone strike at a top terrorist arises—but his family
is with him—it is the president who has reserved to himself the final
moral calculation.”